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[Michael Loftis]

--On March 27, 2007 10:32:07 AM +0000 Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk wrote:

>> > PS: Macintoys come IPv6 enabled already for quite some time too, they
>> > though have IPv6 disabled in Safari to avoid the above issue...
>>
>> Are you sure about this?  It's certainly not the case on my mac (10.4),
>> and  I haven't poked around with any ipv6 settings, other than to enable
>> it on  the ethernet port.
>
> No automatic tunneling but the link local addresses appear and stateless
> autoconfig looks like it would happen if a router was available.

It does.  All you have to do is have a router with discovery advertisements 
turned on.  Unless you tell it not to that's enough for OS/X (atleast 10.4) 
to turn on and use IPv6 if it can.

>
> <relurk>
>
> Sam Wilson
> Network Team, IT Infrastructure (formerly Computing Services)
> Information Services, The University of Edinburgh
> Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
>



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